TWENTY SEVENTEEN - PART 32

       TWENTY                                  SEVENTEEN -

                                                         PART 32



Hello Folks,

The Bothas have not increased the 
rent so it looks as though we will still continue to live  in this shoe box .

Monday 31st July - Andy pays his 
contribution into the bank.

Tuesday first of August - today is Japie's 72nd birthday.  Jeff (my grandson) phones with more bad 
news - He is in the hospital having 
tests done. Today he has to swallow scope etc.  

He has an inflamed pancreas. Apparently he has been ill for about 
a month now. 

2nd August - more tests for Jeff.  
Guy comes to re-gas our fridge, it has not been in working order for more 
than seven months now - after 
this is done he discovers that the compressor is not working. He will come with a new compressor 
tomorrow.

4th August - more tests for Jeff. 
New compressor installed - total 
cost R1450 - very little of our 
R15000 left.  The guy who worked 
on  the fridge tells us to wait for 
10 minutes before the fridge will 
start working (It needs time to 
settle) and leaves, with our money 
is his pocket. Within the next ten minutes the power trips - 
We try everything to get it to work -  
we switch  the chest freezer and our other fridge off but power still trips, 
we switch off all appliances but the power still trips. 
Nothing we try works.

Botha's have run out of pre-paid 
power units again today.  Ruth 
phones the guy about the fridge and 
he gives some "cock and bull" story about us allowing the power trip too many times and so now he will have 
to release the gas and drain 
something or other before he can 
re-gas - this will cost us another 
R450.  We decide, because of all our other problems we will leave the 
fridge for now.

5th August more tests for Jeff. He is 
still in the hospital and is due for more tests on the 8th - he might have to have an operation. Glen, Jeff's uncle is 
having a knee replacement operation today. My eyes are also bad again, 
and we are without Escom power for 
an hour.

6th - My eyes are still bad. 
We are also having
more than usual difficulty with the power here. It keeps tripping and we 
can't even use two 
power points at the same   time. To add 
to this we have had two and a half hours without 
power from  Escom today.

I managed to complete two blog
posts today. I am getting worried, 
my blog posts are being depleted 
and I am not able to keep up with replenishing them, if my eyes are 
not too sore then there is no  
power.

7th - More tests for Jeff - he is on two drips one for feeding purposes and another for something else - probably medication.

next post  26th November